Perplexity Sonar API vs OpenCode vs Cursor vs FastRouter

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Perplexity Sonar API
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OpenCode
Competitor 2
Cursor
Competitor 3
FastRouter
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Perplexity Sonar API
docs.perplexity.ai
Perplexity Sonar API is the developer platform behind Perplexity's real-time web research, exposed as a Router API, an Agent API, a Search API and an Embeddings API.
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Competitor OpenCode
opencode.ai
OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that helps developers write code in the terminal, an IDE or a desktop app.
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Competitor Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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Competitor FastRouter
fastrouter.ai
This LLM gateway lets teams tap into over 100 AI models through one API endpoint
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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4.5Mvisits/mo
15.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 7.8%
▼ 62.7%
6-month growth
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-1.8%
+4.7%
Global rank web
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#15,584
#1,733,591
Avg. last 3 months
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4.4M
23.1K
Bounce rate lower is better
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57%
45%
Pages / visit
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2.4
1.5
Visit duration
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1m 36s
15s
Traffic sources
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● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
● Direct 95% · ● Referral 5%
Perplexity Sonar APIOpenCodeCursorFastRouter
01.2M2.3M3.5M4.6MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MFastRouter · 4.9KFastRouter · 14.8KFastRouter · 11KFastRouter · 10.2KFastRouter · 12.2KFastRouter · 41.6KFastRouter · 15.5K1K10K100K1M10MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MFastRouter · 4.9KFastRouter · 14.8KFastRouter · 11KFastRouter · 10.2KFastRouter · 12.2KFastRouter · 41.6KFastRouter · 15.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
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Free
Freemium
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Starting price
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Free
$20per month · free tier available
$199per month · free tier available
Free tier
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API access
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Plans
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
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Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
Starter FreePro $199/moBusiness $799/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
CodeText
CodeText
AudioImagesText
Output
Text
Code
Code
AudioImagesTextVideo
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Development
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Coding
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LLM gateway
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Model routing
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Web search
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Code reviews
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Debugging
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Information retrieval
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Refactoring
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Web search summaries
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API integrations
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API management
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Code documentation
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Local AI
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Terminal commands management
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